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Dear Halifax...
Early September is an interesting time to have a Fringe festival, but how about some plays that aren't about dating, relationships, and yuppie women professionals?
Thanks,
Will
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Re: Climate change and objectivity
apenwarr: The lack of informed discussion on Global Warming is frustrating. Even granting the fact that temperature has been increasing over the last few decades, I haven't yet heard a convincing explanation on why this is necessarily due to carbon emissions as opposed to any number of other things. It seems like a probable explanation (CO2 is a ( Read more... ) -
In which I explain what this thing does...
After announcing Pathfinder a week or so ago, it occurred to me that most people might not know what it's good for (or at least the subtleties thereof). I certainly wouldn't have before I started working on this project, and the information on its more esoteric features is sort of dispersed across the Internet (if available at all). I figured I ( Read more... ) -
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What I've been working onFor the past while, I've been telling people that I've been working on some "security software" using WvStreams. Unfortunately, I couldn't say exactly what at the time. But that's all over now. Allow me to introduce PathFinder, the next-generation solution for certificate path validation. To my knowledge, Pathfinder is the ( Read more... ) -
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First off, thanks to everyone who came to my going away shindig last Friday. If you couldn't make it: don't worry, I still love you. A special extra thanks are in order for sfllaw, who provided tasty food, as well as scjody, who provided the location ( Read more... ) -
Fannie Mae
After a roughly decade-long hiatus, I've been feeling a resurgent interest in macro-economics (probably spurred by my morbid search for evidence that the world is going to hell in a handbasket). In particular, I'm trying to sort out the details of the relationship between currency, commodities, and overall market activity. Don't really have much to ( Read more... ) -
Return from Edmonton
I really enjoyed my trip, unfortunately my digital camera decided to crap out on me, so I won't be able to put any of the photographic evidence of it online until I get it repaired in Halifax. Perhaps sfllaw will post something soon ( Read more... ) -
Citing your sources
After hearing about Zero Footprint several times in the press (they've inked deals with both Air Canada and the city of Toronto), I decided to check out their site the other day. After considerable digging, I could find absolutely no documentation on the economic or scientific model they were using for calculating an individual's carbon footprint. ( Read more... ) -
Year Zero
This is probably old news to anyone who cares about industrial music, but the new Nine Inch Nails album is remarkably good, easily on par musically with The Downward Spiral and Broken (and with less cheesy lyrics, to boot!). The alternate reality game that goes along with the album is neat too: a pretty vividly imagined dystopian future. I ( Read more... ) -
Dispatch from Edmonton
For those who don't know, I decided to go to Kelly's wedding in Edmonton. He's been a good friend over the years and I've been dying to see the fabled province of Alberta for quite some time now ( Read more... )